07/07/2014
Witness Statement: This statement is true & accurate to the best of my recollection. This incident happened on Monday following the 4th of July weekend of 2014 after my wife, daughter, son in-law & grand kids left our cabin in Kalkaska for home which is 180 miles south (of the cabin) in Laingsburg, MI. My son age 21, who was a real disbeliever in bigfoot, stayed behind with me. As soon as they left, I mixed bleach & water in a pump sprayer & started bleaching our cedar log cabin. I thoroughly rinsed the bleach off with a garden hose after about 10 to 15 minutes.
I like to do this a week or two before I put the finish sealer on it. It was getting late in the day, there was about a half hour to 45 minutes of daylight left, when I heard what sounded like a stone or something hitting a fallen over shed that was to my left & behind me about 10 to 15 feet away.
That caught my attention right away because I had thought just before that something or somebody may be messing with me because as I would turn to my left to reach down to pump more pressure in the pump sprayer I noticed a small stone about the size of a nickel slowly come to rest a couple of feet from my pump sprayer. I took a long steady look around me & saw nothing that stood out, but I was on a mission – I wanted to get the cabin bleached so I could leave for home. I then started the generator to get the water pressure up so I can rinse off the bleach. I grabbed the hose & started rinsing. The hair on the back of my neck stood up.
I would often turn & look real quick behind me and then I seen the ferns parting, coming in my direction but not directly at me & a stone came to rest. I thought maybe my son might be messing with me because I have told him about a lot of strange things that have happened up here. So I yelled for him to knock it off. Then it happened again, another stone & another. I went around to the front of the cabin to shut off the generator which is on the front porch. I noticed my son was sitting in my truck about 30 feet away from the opposite side of the cabin where I was rinsing the bleach off, messing with his i-phone with the window up. I shut off the generator & was walking towards the truck as a stone hit & rolled off the front porch. I rushed to the truck to get him to get in the cabin. He thought I was joking at first. Then he seen I was serious then he experienced it himself. We got in the cabin, it was last light, I could still see out the windows and stones were still being tossed & now they were hitting the cabin but not hitting the windows.
As I sat at the dinning room table I seen something large & dark move fast from the other side of my driveway to behind my truck. I grabbed my 44 mag, reached in my pocket and sounded the truck alarm to scare it off. By then it was real dark out so I closed the drapes. My son went to his bedroom and his bedroom wall was hit. The cabin was at times being hit by stones on at least 3 sides within seconds of each other. There had to be at least 3 throwing stones. My son was terrified. I immediately called Kim Fleming, she was there earlier just after my family left for home. My son counted at least 19 stones hitting the cabin, it is not uncommon to have my walls or door hit very hard & I mean whopped hard after dark, it will shake the log cabin & it scares the HELL out of anyone there. I bought the property in 1986, had a 25 ft. travel trailer there until I built the cabin in 1995-96 I have a little over 47 acres there. Lots of bears and cedar swamp.
mark s
Definate sasquatch behavior, put up some trail cams if you want them to leave you alone maybe?
Gail d
Flood lights this family needs flood lights. It’s getting hard for people to be able to get away and enjoy nature. So much for peace and quiet.
Carol S
It sure seems to be far greater numbers of these things as of late. Do you think it’s because there is less stigma associated with talking about it? If I talk about it, I still get that look from folks–you know, the one where you might as well have lobsters crawling out you ears!
Pat T
Sounds like a great guest to me Wes
Jason M
I was born and raised in MI, and I’ve spent a lot time in the northern Lower Peninsula. Eventhough there is a sizable state forest near Kalkaska and that region has the highest elevation in the Lower Peninsula, I have a difficult time believing sasquatch are there. The Lower Peninsula is a giant Dead-end.; the only way out for an animal that size is the only way in – across a lot of open farm land between Chicago and Detroit. I’ve never heard a credible encounter report from this area, so I’m dubious about this story. If they were anywhere in MI it would be the very sparsely populated Upper Peninsula, which is pretty much all wilderness.
Dave T
Jason, there’s no proof of migration except maybe to avoid deep snow in high elevations out west the same as the other animals do in that region. So why would you think they would have to leave the L.P.? They have everything they need there and can survive there quiet well. There’s still plenty of cover to travel around the Indiana, Ohio border especially under the cover of darkness. Remember also all those corn fields that extend for miles in a couple months will be 7-8 ft tall which provide food, highway to travel along, and could hide an army of Squatches if needed. There are plenty of sightings in the LP as proof they are there.
Gumshoguy
Really? Interesting.
Gumshoguy
Are there Bigfoot/ Sasquatches in Michigan? You bet there are.
Contrary to what some believe, they never go up and knock on somebody’s door announcing their presence. Some of Michigan’s 83 counties have more reports than others.
I agree Kalkaska County is considered be in the Upper Lower Peninsula and the last time I checked, Kalkaska has had a grand total of 15 known Bigfoot/ Sasquatch reports. Like you Jason, I was bred, born and raised in Michigan and I live in the metro southeast area of a couple million people, and a vast difference from up north in Kalkaska.
The counties of Wayne, Washtenaw, Monroe, Hillsdale, Jackson, Ingham and Lenawee are all considered southern lower counties and together they probably represent greatest regional population of the entire state and yet, those seven counties alone represent: 227 Bigfoot Reports. How can that be?
Since there are 83 counties in the great of Michigan, the figure 227 plus the 15 from Kalkaska county are but a mere drop in the bucket considering there are over 1,200 Bigfoot reports throughout the state from late 1700’s through our present day.
Some of these beasts live and thrive and the fringes of developed metro-areas while others migrate north and south following the natural tributaries and wooded lands and semi-agricultural lands spotted with intermittent thickets and tree lines. Beasts have been seen and documented in inner city Detroit and some newly developed suburban areas as well. They’ve been spotted swinging on outdoor swing sets even sipping water from swimming pools or taking up residence in abandoned run downed homes and barns or abandoned junk vehicles.
If you haven’t seen or heard of any credible reports take my advice – they don’t make house calls to let their presence be known. If you decide to feed them they own you. You don’t own them.
They do window peep, house pounding, watch children, and been known to open and unlock car doors, gate latches, barn doors, bedroom windows even remove a few front or back doors every now and then, if they think the freezer is well stocked.
Anyone with a Michigan report share it and please use the four W’s (Who, When, Where, What) and date and time.
One more thing Jason, a month ago, I was asked to accompany a researcher to a Detroit metro suburb with a natural park and creek. The witnesses a mother and son claimed to have observed multiple animals (meaning more than one Bigfoot) in the creek heading northwest toward a larger state parks a few miles away … Just Setting the Record Straight
Aaron C
I have evidence that they are as far south as Cohoctah. I haven’t seen one personally (and honestly don’t really want to) but I have had many occurrences at a site that I visited for work every day, 7 days per week. A large group of deer (21, 3 big bucks in front, moving with purpose like they were being herded), stick structures, new and massive breaks for a week straight, all leading up to what sounded like some sort of display, very large and loud breaks within 50 yards of my vehicle while I was sitting on the access road. This all happened this past spring.
Also, my boss lives in the area and has heard tree knocks behind and then across from his house (sequentially, one after the other); this has happened several times and he goes inside immediately following the knocks. He also told me he saw something “large on two legs cross the road in one step,” in the middle of the night over a decade ago. He doesn’t say it was a sasquatch, but he “has no idea what it was,” he’s not a believer, but thinks it is possible.
I believe the are in MI, for sure, and much farther south than people realize. There are a ton of forest, farmland, and lakes, along with wild life, to support these things all throughout the state.